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10 hours ago, Rightdm00 said:

Not getting enough credit for drawing that red card.  His pace and positional know how forced Egan into fouling him.  Turned a hopeful long ball into an eventual 3 points. 

Exactly this. None of our strikers would have done that last season, so just having that threat on the counter will transform our game. Add Traore and hopefully Rashica as well and we can cause teams all sorts of problems in those scenarios.

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18 minutes ago, villalad21 said:

I liked watching him and Keinan playing up front together.

Think they could form a very good partnership if we played a different system.

We won't and I don't want 2 up front and Watkins will be brilliant regardless 

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what i loved last night was he had 3 big chances, but all totally different scenarios:

  • Got in behind and was one-on-one before being wrestled down
  • In the 6 yard box, just didn't connect for tap in
  • Just inside penalty box narrowly curled it over

Not only do i think he'll score a hatful, i think he'll score a number of different goals for us. Proper all rounder, not just a poacher, long range or aerial specialist

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play to his strengths and he will be fine for us.

We did it a couple of times last night, playing in crosses behind the defence, he nearly got on the end of one.

He has got good movement

Felt we went to much crossing in deep last night, too easy for their back three all above 6ft, he didn't really have a chance.

But like I say, get low crosses in to run on to and he will score for fun.

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2 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

You reckon he will be our penalty taker? I was asked who was our taker, and I must admit I have no clue anymore 

Haven't had a regular one since Tammy. 

Had 2 pens all season last year and missed both (Wesley and Grealish).

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6 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said:

You reckon he will be our penalty taker? I was asked who was our taker, and I must admit I have no clue anymore 

Good point. He didn't take any for Brentford so I guess it might come down to a few training ground sessions to decide.

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26 minutes ago, Wainy316 said:

Haven't had a regular one since Tammy. 

Had 2 pens all season last year and missed both (Wesley and Grealish).

Fully understandable that we've all tried our best to remove the game from our memory but El Ghazi scored one vs City at Villa Park.

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18 minutes ago, Indigo said:

Fully understandable that we've all tried our best to remove the game from our memory but El Ghazi scored one vs City at Villa Park.

Oh yes!  Thanks for bringing that flooding back.

We had 3 then, all taken by different players.  Did Watkins used to take Brentford's?

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7 hours ago, Bazmonkey said:

play to his strengths and he will be fine for us.

We did it a couple of times last night, playing in crosses behind the defence, he nearly got on the end of one.

He has got good movement

Felt we went to much crossing in deep last night, too easy for their back three all above 6ft, he didn't really have a chance.

But like I say, get low crosses in to run on to and he will score for fun.

I think Jack realises this - he put a couple of nice daisy cutters in for Ollie. 

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